Chapter VI. 

 

Of the Executive Ministers and of the Governors.

 

§30.  No person shall be eligible to the office of Minister to the King, or Governor, who is not a subject or denizen, and of the full age of twenty-one years.

 

§31.  Every Minister or Governor, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe an oath to support the Constitution and Laws, and faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of his office.  Such oath shall be placed and kept among the records of the Privy Council.

 

§32.  Every Minister shall reside and keep his office at the Seat of Government, and shall not leave the kingdom during his continuance in office, except upon public business with which he may be charged by the King.

           

The King, by and with the advice of his Cabinet Council, shall appoint and commission the Governors of his several islands; the Governors hold office for the term of four years, subject to impeachment.

           

The King, upon the nomination of the Governor, may appoint in one or more islands, a Lieutenant-Governor, during his pleasure, to assist the Governor, but always subordinate to him in authority.

           

The Governors, in case of sickness, or unavoidable absence, in all cases where no Lieutenant-Governor has been has been appointed, have power to appoint substitutes, for all whose official acts they are responsible.

           

On and after the passage of this Act, the Governors of the Islands of Hawai’i, Maui, O’ahu and Kaua’i, shall have power to administer oaths, and to take depositions of witnesses, in all matters coming within their respective departments.

 

 

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